How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

by Michael Schur

who has the time and money and energy to think about ethics?

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This book is an account of my own journey through moral philosophy, but it’s also about learning to accept failure—or really, to embrace it—as a necessary and beneficial by-product of our efforts to try, learn, and improve.

Oh boy

I’m just kidding—we’re still gonna fail all the time. But again, that’s okay! So, let’s start failing. Or, in the words of Samuel Beckett: Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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We become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.”

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But there is a way to escape the scourge of cruelty: knowledge. (Specifically: knowledge of cultural practices other than our own.)

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(None of the people in the Trolley Problem have any awareness of the dangers all around them. It’s infuriating.)

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